Applied Nursing Research
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages e17-e22 , August 2011

Strategies to recruit difficult-to-reach home health care nurses for research

  • Linda W. Samia, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Southern Maine, College of Nursing and Health Professions, P.O. Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 207 780 4437; fax: +1 207 780 4997.
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  • Carol Hall Ellenbecker, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Boston, MA 02025, USA

Received 11 September 2009 ,Revised 29 January 2010 ,Accepted 3 February 2010.

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☆ The Nurse Retention Study was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01 HS 13477-03).

PII: S0897-1897(10)00007-8

doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2010.02.002

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages e17-e22 , August 2011

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